Transient behavior and analysis of non-Darcy flow in porous and fractured reservoirs according to the Barree and Conway model

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2010 - In Collaboration with the Joint Meetings of the Pacific Section AAPG and Cordilleran Section GSA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 788-812

  Al Otaibi, Ajab ^a   Wu, Yu Shu ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; FLOW MODEL; FLOW PRESSURE; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FRACTURED ROCK; GENERAL PURPOSE; HIGH PRODUCTION RATE; MATCHING PROCESS; NEAR WELLBORE; NON-DARCY FLOW; NON-DARCY FLOW EFFECTS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRESSURE BUILD UP; PRESSURE DRAWDOWN TESTS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SINGLE PHASE; TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; TYPE CURVES; WELL BORE STORAGE; WELL TEST; WELLBORE STORAGE EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERS; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RADIAL FLOW; STANDARDS; WELL TESTING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 77958501822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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